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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: May 7, 2020 5:43AM

That's what I was thinking when I suggested this, but whichever role
is used is of pretty limited consequence.

On 5/7/20, Mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Likely because if your website sells toilet cleaner and you have a message
> about corona/covid, it's considered by most visitors as a somewhat unrelated
> topic; at the very least, your home page about the sale on Toilet Duck isn't
> a corona-health page.
>
> In that sense, aside makes some sense, in that the content isn't really
> directly related to the general page content. I know lots of people put site
> or product navigation in asides and there it's not really meant to present
> as some wholly separate topic, so maybe it depends on how asides are being
> used on the site already, and also if you have a brick-and-mortar that's
> physically closed due to corona then it may not seem quite so off-topic if
> that's the announcement.
>
> But anyway that was my thoughts on the reason.
>
> cheers,
> _mallory
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2020, at 4:41 AM, Murphy, Sean wrote:
>> Why would you use the Aside element and not a section elements with an
>> aria-label / aria-labelledby for alerts?
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>> Sean Murphy | Digital System specialist (Accessibility)
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